Mangaluru: ‘Butterfly Life’, a comprehensive documentary about butterflies, is being well received by conservationists and the general public.
The creator of Sammilan S Shetty’s documentary was also the founder of Park Butterfly in Belvai from the Dakshnia District of Kannada.
He planned to filter a documentary at an educational institution, when the pandemic struck, forced him and his team to filter it into an audience online.
The documentary is 100 minutes, which was revealed with a habitat shot and brief introduction to the world of insects and butterflies, played on Saturday.
Sammilan told Toi: “Nilgiri Natural History of the Society decided to filter it online last month.
The first online playback becomes a weekly business afterwards.
Naturalists and the general public, especially students, from all over India and abroad have responded and feedback.
Surprise , 200 our slots are taken in a short time every week.
When the query duplies the number of slots, we will try to have more sessions.
Free playback followed by question and answer sessions.
We want to reach more viewers by collaborating with organizations and institutions throughout the world, “He added.
This documentary has several recording captured exclusively from the butterfly park.
Seeing pre-monsoon shower which triggered a butterfly activity, followed by the West-West Monsun which brought more life, making viewers feel rich rainforests in the region.
It captures the entire southern birdwing life cycle, the butterfly that is endemic to South India.
It tracks men who choose and patrol in the area, dating, laying eggs, puppers and closion (hatching insect larvae from eggs), besides the threat faced by their butterflies and defenses to fight the same.
The first behavior ever known and arrested from a southern female shot eggs in the air and to the grass blades was also displayed.
The documentary also features several extraordinary butterflies from Western Ghats: Maalabar Banded Swallowtail, autumn leaves and Peacock Malabar-banded Iconic, complete with the initial stages.
“Hopefully the documentary will inspire and motivate people to preserve natural habitat.
I have shot a recording in a four-year range,” Sammilan signed.